Lars Rensmann

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Lars Rensmann (born April 17, 1970 in Bochum ) is a German political scientist and university professor. From 2012 to 2015 he was Associate Professor of Political Science at John Cabot University in Rome. Since 2016 he has been Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen .

Life

Rensmann studied after high school in 1989 at the Bert-Brecht-Gymnasium in Dortmund political science at Luther College ( BA 1992) in Iowa and at the Free University of Berlin (diploma in 1996 and a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk promotion with summa cum laude in 2002 at Hajo Funke ). In 2003/04 he was a Post Doc and Research Fellow at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

In 2005/06 he conducted research at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam. In 2006 he became DAAD Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and in 2012 Associate Professor at John Cabot University in Rome. Since 2016 he has been Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen . He is also a permanent fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies and a visiting fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He had guest lectureships a. a. in the USA , Austria and Israel .

He has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism since 2011 and of the Journal of International Political Theory since 2013 . His research interests are political theory , European politics and international politics . He also deals intensively with anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism .

Fonts (selection)

  • Critical theory about anti-Semitism. Studies on structure, explanatory potential and topicality (= Edition Philosophy and Social Sciences . 42). Argument Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88619-642-9 .
  • with Micha Brumlik , Hajo Funke : Contested forgetting. Walser debate, Holocaust memorial and recent German historical policy (= series of publications on politics and culture at the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin . 3). Verlag Das Arabische Buch, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86093-240-3 .
  • Democracy and the image of the Jews. Anti-Semitism in the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14006-X . (also diss.)
  • with Susanne Frölich-Steffen (Ed.): Populists in power. Populist governing parties in Western and Eastern Europe . With an afterword by Cas Mudde , Braumüller, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7003-1521-X .
  • with Andrei S. Markovits : Querpass. Sport and Politics in Europe and the USA . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-580-8 .
  • with Julius H. Schoeps , Gideon Botsch , Christoph Kopke (eds.): Right-wing extremism in Brandenburg: Handbook for analysis, prevention and intervention , among others with Jörg Schönbohm , Potsdam 2007, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 455 pages, ISBN 978-3 -86650-640-4
  • with Julius H. Schoeps (Ed.): Feindbild Judentum. Anti-Semitism in Europe . vbb, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86650-642-8 .
  • with Gideon Botsch, Christoph Kopke (Ed.): Politics of Hate Studies on Anti-Semitism and Right-Wing Extremism September 2009, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 392 pages, ISBN 978-3-86650-065-5 .
  • with Julius H. Schoeps, Gideon Botsch, Christoph Kopke, Politics of Hate - Anti-Semitism and Radical Right in Europe. 2010, Georg Olms Verlag ISBN 978-3-487-14438-2 .
  • with Andrei S. Markovits: Gaming the World. How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-13751-3 .
  • with Julius H. Schoeps (Ed.): Politics and Resentment. Antisemitism and Counter-Cosmopolitanism in the European Union (= Jewish Identities in a Changing World . 14). Brill, Leiden 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-19046-7 .
  • with Steffen Hagemann , Hajo Funke: Authoritarianism and Democracy. Political theory and culture in global modernity (= science newsreel ). Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-89974-679-2 .
  • with Samir Gandesha (Ed.): Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations . Stanford University Press, Stanford 2012, ISBN 978-0-8047-7540-3 .
  • The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism (= Suny Series Philosophy and Race). SUNY Press, Albany, NY 2017, ISBN 978-1-4384-6593-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rensmann, Lars
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rensmann, Lars Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum